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"Mr President, I should like to speak about the regulation on plant protection products. I trust that everyone will agree that the careless use of pesticides is dangerous both for man and the environment. However, I also trust that everyone accepts that the use of pesticides has allowed the mass production of food and the people to be fed. As such, plant protection products are needed, but we need to use them properly.
However, I am afraid that the new regulation raises numerous questions and numerous fears. European farmers are worried that only applying restrictions to them will oust them from production and that they will not be able to produce on competitive terms. Then consumers really will have to worry, because third country products are of dubious quality. Finally, in third countries, in which production methods are uncontrolled, we shall have huge inroads into and massive destruction of the environment. This being so, I trust that we shall pay particular attention to this issue, because there is a possibility that we shall do more harm than good. We need to look at this issue very attentively, knowing the real facts."@en1
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